8491Case of Randall and Whitney, [7 January] 1796 (Madison Papers)
Giles (Virginia) moved that Whitney’s case be dismissed as it involved no breach of privilege. Smith (South Carolina) and several other members objected to Giles’s motion, claiming that Whitney’s conversations with a member of the House in Vermont (Daniel Buck) were as much a breach of privilege as if they had occurred in Philadelphia ( Annals of Congress Debates and Proceedings in the...
8492Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson, [15 October] 1804 (Madison Papers)
Perhaps the language may be a little more effectually guarded agst. the idea of making a sort of Stipulation the title to the appointment. All that can be effected is to strengthen his good dispositions, by his knowing that they were calculated on as a proof of his general merit, & by his committing himself for a perseverence in those dispositions, by conversations and declarations on the...
8493Instructions in re Treaty with Sweden, [28 September] 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 47, fol. 303). In JM’s hand. In his dispatch of 25 June, Benjamin Franklin informed Robert R. Livingston that King Gustavus III of Sweden had instructed his ambassador at the court of Versailles to broach the subject of negotiating a commercial treaty with the United States. The ambassador reminded Franklin that “Sweden was the first power in Europe which had voluntarily...
8494Circular Letter to the Justices of the Supreme Court, 30 March 1804 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 March 1804, Department of State. “By the direction of the President of the United States I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of an instrument whereby he has allotted the Circuits in consequence of the appointment of the Honble William Johnson to fill the Vacancy on the Bench of the Supreme Court occasioned by the resignation of the Honble Alfred Moore.” RC ( MHi : Robert Treat Paine...
8495Note on Motion on Illicit Trade with the Enemy, 17 June 1782 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 186, fol. 36). 17 June 1782. On 14 June 1782 Congress named eleven of its members, including JM, to be a committee under Samuel Osgood’s chairmanship, “To devise & report ways & means to prevent an illicit trade with the Enemy.” Three days later this committee was “discharged on a Motion of Mr. Madison & the business referred to a comee. of five” (NA: PCC , No. 186, fol....
8496Bill Relating to the Office of Lieutenant Governor, [5 December] 1786 (Madison Papers)
Be it enacted that the Act, entitled an Act empowering one of the Privy Council to officiate in certain Cases as Lieutenant Governour, the operation whereof is suspended untill the first day of January next, shall commence & be in force from and after the passing of this Act. Ms ( Vi ). In JM’s hand. Docketed by JM, “A Bill For putting into immediate operation an Act entitled ‘An Act...
8497Report on Treaty with Sweden, [24 July] 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 29, fols. 323–25). In JM’s hand. Docketed: “Rept. of Ratification & Proclamation of Treaty with Sweeden. Mr. Madison Mr. Higginson Mr. Hamilton Q. if the letter of 15 April from Mr. Franklin is returned? Report delivered July 24. 1783 Entd. read. The ratification Passed July 29. 1783 The proclamation postponed Passed Septr. 25th, 1783.” The brackets are in the manuscript....
8498[JM] to George B. Graham and John H. Crothers, 22 June 1836 (Madison Papers)
I have received in the due course of the Mail your letter of June 2d. notifying my election as an honorary Member of the Erodelphian Society of the Miami University. The pamphlet containing a catalogue of the names of the members has since come to hand and it affords me pleasure that mine will be associated with them. In accepting the honor conferred I beg leave to present my thanks to the...
8499Report on Maryland’s Payment to Troops, [28 July] 1783 (Madison Papers)
MS ( NA : PCC , No. 19, IV, 411–13). Docketed: “Report of Come. on Lettr. from Supt of Finance of June 20. 1783, with the papers inclosed relative to certain proceedings of the State of Maryland. Mr Madison Mr. Hawkins Mr. Duane Delivered July 28. 1783 read.” The first three paragraphs of the report are in JM’s hand, the last five in that of Benjamin Hawkins. The Committee to whom was referred...
8500The Federalist Number 53, [9 February] 1788 (Madison Papers)
I shall here perhaps be reminded of a current observation, “that where annual elections end, tyranny begins.” If it be true, as has often been remarked, that sayings which become proverbial, are generally founded in reason, it is not less true that when once established, they are often applied to cases to which the reason of them does not extend. I need not look for a proof beyond the case...